Hivechess Tournament Season 21 Round 7: @maestroask won again, by a hair´s breadth

Dear chess fans,

today round 7 of S21 was played as a 2+1 bullet arena. For the rules please refer to the announcement post. 29 players were joining - a new record for S21! The average rating was very high, 1928, but doesn´t count for the season as it is a bullet rating. The berserk rate was with 15% record-low, as expected with very fast time controls. Welcome back, Hive account@tony1294, Hive account@fcastro177 and Hive account@rafaelaquino!

This time behind the usual winner Hive account@maestroask were Hive account@samostically and Hive account@dhilan04, but it was quite close and Hive account@samostically was leading for the bigger part. Rank 4 went to Hive account@eniolw! Congratulations to All!

Result table of round 7:

Link to the tournament: https://lichess.org/tournament/O4al2uqi

Season 21: 26 Sep to 12 Dec 2025 / Ranking after 7 (of 12) rounds:

Tournament 1 (0-1499)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@salomijale	summisineon1	IND	1504	7	60	1721
2(+1)	Hive account@lailawrites	Ohieku		1325	6	37	1454
3(-1)	Hive account@spartano	humbertoortega	VEN	1494	6	36	1630
4	Hive account@fiona777	fiona777	UKR	1363	6	28	1322
5	Hive account@vasigo	vasigo	SRB	1187	6	12	1310
6	Hive account@teooo	teoooForHive		1467	1	7	1470
7	Hive account@elcholitosanto	RicardoFox	PER	1273	1	6	1523
8	Hive account@dadapizza	knighthammer7		997	1	5	1153

Tournament 2 (1500-1799)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@giuatt07	guisep73	ITA	1630	7	104	1806
2(+1)	Hive account@lighteye	lighteye	SRB	1717	7	81	1835
3(-1)	Hive account@justola1	just-ola	NGA	1729	7	79	1676
4	Hive account@sammy00	migmag	BIH	1582	7	77	1625
5	Hive account@ezemhugo	MixzyRagnal	NGA	1701	6	73	1725
6	Hive account@stranger27	stranger27	UKR	1654	6	61	1653
7(+3)	Hive account@schamangerbert	HerbyW	GER	1601	2	28	1948
8	Hive account@odic3o1	odic3o	ECU	1754	4	28	1716
9	Hive account@darruiz	darruiz	VEN	1569	4	26	1685
10(-3)	Hive account@rodrook	RDcast	USA	1517	3	25	1575
11	Hive account@draco2	Draco2	NGA	1771	1	10	1741
12(new)	Hive account@rafaelaquino	ajedrezclub2t	VEN		1	5

Tournament 3 (1800-2099)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@stayoutoftherz	stayoutoftherz	AUT	2024	7	127	2014
2	Hive account@justfavour	justfavour	NGA	1871	7	105	1892
3	Hive account@rosmarly	rosmarly	VEN	1957	6	98	1854
4	Hive account@southgamer	SouthGamer		1904	6	89	1829
5	Hive account@dhilan04	tortyllan		1963	3	62	1870
6	@madChess64	MadChess64	NGA	1998	2	45	1908
7	Hive account@tobijob	tobilobajob	NGA	1998	1	20	2074
8	Hive account@maverieux000	Keylix		2066	1	19	2154
9(new)	Hive account@fcastro177	FCastro17	VEN	1998	1	16	2074

Tournament 4 (2100+)

Rank	Hive name	Lichess name	Country	Rating	Rounds played	Points	Performance
1	Hive account@samostically	ZGM_Samostically	NGA	2138	6	143	2039
2	Hive account@maestroask	Odnoobraz_bcm	RUS	2555	7	141	2436
3	Hive account@jaki01	jaki01	GER	2306	5	98	2205
4(+2)	Hive account@tangibleay	Tangible_ay	NGA	2175	3	73	2195
5	Hive account@stuffings	stuffings	NGA	2331	4	72	2025
6(-2)	Hive account@dalods	Gmdalods-16	NGA	2304	2	55	2045
7(+1)	Hive account@eniolw	eniolw	VEN	2429	2	54	2376
8(-1)	Hive account@dakods	Dakods-16	NGA	2259	2	38	2103
9	Hive account@lucianosky	Pavarotty	NGA	2337	2	24	2303
10	Hive account@africanchess	othims	NGA		2	23
11(new)	Hive account@tony1294	tony1294	VEN		1	21

Not too many changes this time and not too many excitement with regard to the top positions except in tournament 4. Maybe I will skip one of the next rounds to make things more interesting.

As always, see you tomorrow at the HiveChess Saturday Showdown (R18), hosted by Hive account@samostically (I hope I can make it):
@sam.chess/hivechess-saturday-showdown-r19-friday-event-tomorrow-cge